To request our Senators and Representative, in Congress, to
use their exertions to procure an appropriation for treating with
the Creek and other nations of Indians, relative to the Cession
of certain parts of their Territory.

WHEREAS it has been represented to the General Assembly of
this State, by certain resolutions passed by the legislature of
Georgia, that the Creek and Cherokee nations of Indians are desirous
to make certain cessions of their territory, by which the settlements
of Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia, would become connected, and
thereby greatly facilitate the personal and commercial intercourse
and traffic of the citizens of the said States: Therefore, Be
it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That our Senators,
in the congress of the United States, be instructed, and our Representative
requested, to use their best endeavors to have an appropriation
made for holding a treaty or treaties with said nations of Indians.
And be it further enacted resolved, That a copy of this preamble
and resolutions be transmitted, by His Excellency the Governor,
to each of our Senators and Representative.

(Approved, Dec. 12, 1821.)

RESOLUTION,

Appointing a commissioner to act with other commissioners in
fixing the temporary seat of Justice for Decatur County.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Alabama, in General Assembly convened, That William
Leg be, and he is hereby, appointed commissioner, to act with
the commissioners already appointed to fix the temporary seat
of Justice for Decatur county.

[Approved, Dec. 19, 1821.]

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RESOLUTIONS,

Concerning the printing of the Journals and Laws of the present
General Assembly, and for other purposes.

Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the State of Alabama, in General Assembly convened, That
the public printer be, and he is hereby, required, to print and
deliver according to law, two thousand two hundred copies of the
laws and resolutions passed at the present session of the Legislature,
one thousand copies of the Journals of the House of Representatives,
and seven hundred copies of the Journals of the Senate.

And be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of State,
immediately on the receipt of the said laws and Journals as aforesaid,
be empowered and requires, to employ a suitable person to carry
that portion of them to which the counties in the first, second,
and sixth, Judicial Circuits are entitled, and another to carry
those to which the counties in the third, fourth and fifth Judicial
Circuits are entitled, forthwith, to the clerks of the County
Courts of each county, respectively, to be by them distributed
according to law. And be it further Resolved, That the
Secretary aforesaid be, and he is hereby authorized, to draw on
the Comptroller of Public accounts in favour of the person employed
to carry them to the counties in the first, second and sixth Judicial
Circuits, a sum not exceeding; and in favour of the person employed
to carry them to the counties in the third, fourth, and fifth
Judicial Circuits, a sum not exceeding; which shall be paid out
of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, any law
to the contrary notwithstanding. And be it further Resolved,
That the public printer shall receive his salary in the following
manner, to wit: one fourth on the delivery of the printed laws
to the Secretary of the State, according to law; one fourth on
the delivery of the Journals of the House as above; and the remaining
one fourth at the expiration of the year: and the Comptroller
is hereby authorized to issue his warrants in his favour for the
amount thereof, on the Certificate from the Secretary that the
same are completed.

[Approved Dec. 18, 1821.]

RESOLUTION,

Allowing to the comptroller two hundred and fifty dollars in
addition to his present salary.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That the Comptroller
of Public accounts be, and he is hereby allowed, two hundred and
fifty dollars in addition to his present pay.

[Approved, Dec. 17, 1827.]

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RESOLUTIONS,

Making it the duty of Harry Toulmin and the Judges of the Supreme
and Circuit Courts of this State, to report to the General Assembly,
any defects or imperfections which may exist in the Statutes of
this State.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of Alabama, in General Assembly convened, That it
shall be the duty of Harry Toulmin, who has been appointed to
digest the laws of this State, to make memorandums in the progress
of his examination of any defects, inconsistencies, ambiguities,
or imperfections, in the Statutes of this State, which may appear
to him to exist, and to make report thereof, detached from his
report of the digest of the laws, to the General Assembly at their
next session. And be it further resolved, by the authority
aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Judges of the
Supreme and Circuit Courts of this State, to note or make memorandums
of any and all defects and imperfections in the statutes of this
State, which they may discover in the course of the discharge
of their Judicial Duties, and make report of the same from time
to time, to the General Assembly.

(Approved, Dec. 12, 1821.)

RESOLUTIONS,

Authorizing the Tax Collectors of the counties of Madison and
Limestone to pay into the Huntsville Bank the Amount of taxes
due from their respective counties.

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the State of Alabama, in General Assembly convened, That
the tax collectors of Madison and Limestone counties be, and they
are hereby, authorized and required, to pay into the Huntsville
Bank, the amount of money they may have collected, on or before
the twenty seventh day of December, one thousand eight hundred
and twenty one : which sums shall be placed to the credit of the
Governor of the State, to be applied in conformity with the Act
authorizing the payment of the debt of ten thousand dollars, due
from the State to said Bank.

(Approved, Dec. 18, 1821.)

RESOLUTIONS,

In relation to the annexation of that part of Florida which
lies west of the Apalachicola river.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Alabama, in General Assembly convened, That our Senators
in Congress and our Representative in the same, be requested to
convey to the Congress of the United States, the anxiety which
is felt by the citizens of this State, that, that part of Florida
which lies west of the Apalachicola river should be annexed to
this State: and that our Senators and Representative be instructed
and re-

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quested as aforesaid, to procure the passage of a law, by which
this desirable object may be effected. And be it further resolved
by the authority aforesaid, that his Excellency the Governor
of this State, be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing
resolution to each of our Senators and Representative, with as
little delay as possible.

[Approved, Dec. 18, 1821.]

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RESOLUTIONS,

Instructing our Senators and Representative in Congress, in
relation to the Census of this State.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That our
Senators and Representative in Congress, be instructed to use
their influence to procure the passage of a law, by which such
parts of the returns of the census of the State of Alabama, as
have been or may be received subsequently to the time pointed
out by an act of Congress, passed at the last session, may be
received and make a part of the population of this State, in such
manner as to be entitled to representation in Congress. Resolved
further, That the Governor be requested to forward a copy
of the foregoing resolution to each of our Senators and Representative.

[Approved, Dec. 17, 1821.]

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RESOLUTIONS,

In relation to the Road from Uchee Brigge to Line creek.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That our Senators
in the Congress of the United States be instructed, and our Representative
requested, to use their influence, to procure to Thomas Barton
and chapel Sledge, the right of establishing a Road in the Creek
nation of Indians, leading from the Uchee bridge to the United
States' boundary line on Line creek. And be it further resolved,
That his Excellency, the Governor, be requested to forward to
each of our Senators and Representative, a copy of these resolutions.

[Approved, Dec. 17, 1821.]

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RESOLUTIONS,

Returning the thanks of this Legislature to Jeremiah Austill
for his heroic exertions during the late Creek war, particularly
for his gallant conduct when in company with Brevet Brigadier
General Dale in the Canoe action.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That this
Legislature return their unfeigned thanks to Jeremiah Austill
for his heroic exertions during the late Creek war, and particularly
for his gallant conduct when in company

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with Brevet Brigadier General Dale, in the Canoe action on
the Alabama river.

Resolved further, That his Excellency the Governor.
be, and he is hereby, requested, to transmit a copy of these resolutions
to Jeremiah Austill, as soon as practicable, after the passage
of the same.

[Approved, Dec. 18, 1821.]

Secretary of State's Office

Cahawba, Feb. 9, 1822.

It is hereby certified, that the foregoing Acts and Resolutions
are correct copies, collated with, and corrected by, the original
rolls deposited in this Office.